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All right.

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You're almost at the end of this course and in this lecture I want to give you a summary of all the key

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lessons from this course. Because in most lectures we have been very very zoomed in.

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And I also want you to see the bigger picture of what you've learned.

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So we started this course with two goals.

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And the first goal was to learn how to write a research paper.

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And the second goal was to learn how to make it successful.

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So how to sell your research well in your writing. And at the beginning, we talked a little bit about

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writing strategy and how it makes sense to start with an outline that serves as the blueprint of your

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final paper.

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And during this course, I've guided the youth of the steps of creating that outline and then turning

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it into text.

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In addition we also talked - a lot actually - about the content and structure of an effective research paper.

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And we started with the insight that an effective research paper has two key components, which are an

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interesting question and a compelling answer.

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And the first step is usually to phrase your research question in a way that the question is interesting

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but you're also able to give a compelling answer.

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And then we zoomed into this a little bit more and split up the task of making the question interesting

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into three sub goals.

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One is to show that the topic is important.

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The other is to show that the question is novel. So that it hasn't been answered before.

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And the final goal is to show that your question is timely in the sense that it's the logical next step

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after the research that has already been conducted.

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And we did the same for the compelling answer.

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We split it up into showing that the answer is convincing and also that the answer is valuable.

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OK.

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So that's what we need to achieve.

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But how do we do that in the paper?

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And we discussed that showing that your question is interesting is what happens mostly in the introduction.

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Specifically in the first paragraph you show that your topic is important and then in your literature

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review you show that your question is novel and that it is timely.

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Conversely, showing that your answer is compelling happens in the Discussion section.

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More precisely, you show that your answer is convincing when you interpret the results

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and when you discuss limitations of your research. And you show that your answer is valuable in the integration

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of your research into existing research where you mainly show that your research is something novel

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and that it contributes something new and in the implications where you discuss the broader value of

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your findings: what do we understand better? What applications may be possible?

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And then finally the last step is to edit and fine tune what you have done.

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And those are all the great writers that I know achieve great papers.

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They write something that maybe isn't that great.

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And then they make it a little bit better and a little bit better and a little bit better.

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And that is in a nutshell how you achieve a great research paper.

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All right.

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That's it for this lecture.

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And I see you in the next one.